The Bhagavad Gita 8:24-25
Priority request: "The six months of the northern path of the sun, the path of light, of fire, of day, of the bright fortnight, leads knowers of Brahman to the supreme goal..."
Scriptures
"God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them"
Priority request. Genesis 1:27.
Litany of St. Joseph
"O God, in your ineffable providence you were pleased to choose Blessed Joseph to be the spouse of your most holy Mother; grant, we beg you, that we may be worthy to have him for our intercessor in heaven whom on earth we venerate as our Protector: You who live and reign forever and ever."
Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (Lamsa translation)
King Solomon: The thing that has been is that which shall be; and which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Whosoever speaks and says, Look, this is new, should know that it already has been in the ages which were before us.
Hebrews 11
Request: Confused about faith. Is Hebrews 11 the best way of understanding faith? Faith in the things unseen. That means trusting God about the things you cant see with your own two eyes right?
Dhammapada
Request: Collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.
"the female body is polluted; it is not a fit vessel for the Dharma"
Request: A quote from the Lotus Sutra (cal. 780 TvF), chapter XII.
Abhidharma
Request: [ancient] detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world...
"...He who loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." -- 1 John 2:15
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"
Proverbs 16:18. Request: Things go really well for me then I become prideful and go off on my own, thinking I can do better without others. I either leave or tell them to leave, neglecting the fact that the reason I am doing well is because they are in my life.
Gospel of Nicodemus
Request: also known as the Acts of Pilate is an apocryphal gospel claimed to have been derived from an original Hebrew work written by Nicodemus, who appears in the Gospel of John as an associate of Jesus -- wikipedia
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The book is calibrated at 575 in TvF, but there's some bizarre stuff in there, i.e. Chapter 8, "Natural Liberation through Recognition of the Visual Indications and Signs of Death." Should we take it seriously?
"abstain from all appearance of evil"
Bible verse: 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV)
Bhagavad Gita on repression
"Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?" -- Chapter 3:33, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada translation
John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” -- John 3:3 ESV